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Eyewitness account of Rose Castle sinking by survivor Gordon Hardy

Eyewitness account of Gordon Walter Hardy from Ingonish, Nova Scotia, who survived the sinking of SS Rose Castle on November 2, 1942: “I joined the [Canadian] Merchant Navy […]

Marita and Barry Collings donate U-boat Commander’s artifacts

Marita Collings (right) and Barry Collings (centre) donating Rolf Rüggeberg’s Navy medals, badges and photographs to the Bell Island Community Museum on July 6, 2010. Rüggeberg was commander […]

Battle of the Atlantic: Allied shipping and U-boat losses, 1942-1943

A graph of the numbers of Allied & Neutral merchant ships and German U-boats sunk per month in the North Atlantic Ocean from January 1942 until December 1943. […]